Fetches a page, discards everything that is not the article, and renders
what is left as a self-contained HTML document with no scripts, no
stylesheets, no webfonts and no third-party requests. The reader rule in
the starter config already points at it.
Extraction follows Readability: score p/pre/td/blockquote by prose weight,
propagate to ancestors with decay, adjust by class and id names, scale by
one minus link density, then take the winner plus sibling nodes that also
read like body copy. Serialisation runs against a tag whitelist, with
unlisted elements contributing their children but no tag of their own, so
wrapper divs disappear.
Handling for what real pages actually do:
- follow meta http-equiv=refresh stubs, including inside noscript
- fall back to data-src when src holds a lazy-load placeholder
- take the first srcset candidate, the smallest, not the last
- decode via Content-Type charset, then meta charset, then UTF-8
- resolve links against the post-redirect URL so file:// output works
- ignore script and style text so a page cannot inflate its own score
Output goes to a cache file named by a hash of the URL and opens in
$FURST_BROWSER, $BROWSER, or the first light browser on $PATH; --html,
--text, --out and --stdin cover the other uses.
Restructures the repository as a workspace so the router keeps its two
dependencies and its fast build.
Sits where the default browser used to and dispatches each URL to the
cheapest tool that can handle it: mpv for video, zathura for PDFs, a light
WebKit browser for reading, Firefox only when nothing else will do.
Rules live in ~/.config/furst/rules.toml and are matched in order. When a
rule's command is missing from $PATH the router falls through to the next
match, then to the default, so a config may name tools that do not exist
yet without breaking today.
- host patterns match apex plus subdomains, with = for exact and * for any
- paths glob case-insensitively, contains matches the raw URL
- {url} {url_enc} {host} {path} {scheme} placeholders, URL appended if unused
- terminal = true wraps a handler in $TERMINAL -e for TUI tools
- --explain shows the parse and every candidate in priority order
- --install registers a .desktop entry as the system default browser
Host parsing strips userinfo with rfind('@') so that
https://bank.example@evil.example/ routes on evil.example. Handlers are
exec'd rather than forked, leaving no process behind.
